---
title: Starlight 🌟 Build documentation sites with Astro
head:
  - tag: title
    content: Starlight 🌟 Build documentation sites with Astro
description: Starlight helps you build beautiful, high-performance documentation websites with Astro.
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hero:
  title: Make your docs shine with Starlight
  tagline: Everything you need to build a stellar documentation website. Fast, accessible, and easy-to-use.
  image:
    file: ~/assets/hero-star.webp
  actions:
    - text: Get started
      icon: right-arrow
      link: /getting-started/
    - text: View on GitHub
      icon: external
      variant: minimal
      link: https://github.com/withastro/starlight
---

import { CardGrid, Card } from '@astrojs/starlight/components';
import AboutAstro from '~/components/about-astro.astro';
import TestimonialGrid from '~/components/testimonial-grid.astro';
import Testimonial from '~/components/testimonial.astro';

<CardGrid stagger>
	<Card title="Documentation that delights" icon="open-book">
		Includes: Site navigation, search, internationalization, SEO, easy-to-read
		typography, code highlighting, dark mode and more.
	</Card>
	<Card title="Powered by Astro" icon="rocket">
		Leverage the full power and performance of Astro. Extend Starlight with your
		favorite Astro integrations and libraries.
	</Card>
	<Card title="Markdown, Markdoc, and MDX" icon="document">
		Bring your favorite markup language. Starlight gives you built-in
		frontmatter validation with TypeScript type-safety.
	</Card>
	<Card title="Bring your own UI components" icon="puzzle">
		Starlight ships as a framework-agnostic, complete docs solution. Extend with
		React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, and more.
	</Card>
</CardGrid>

<TestimonialGrid title="What people are saying">
  <Testimonial
    name="Rachel"
    handle="rachelnabors"
    cite="https://twitter.com/astrodotbuild/status/1724934718745915558"
  >
    The Astro team have EVOLVED how docs can be done and you can get it all out of the box with their Starlight project.
  </Testimonial>
  <Testimonial
    name="Flavio"
    handle="flaviocopes"
    cite="https://twitter.com/flaviocopes/status/1738237658717905108"
  >
    Astro’s official starter kit Starlight is a truly incredible tool for building a documentation website
  </Testimonial>
  <Testimonial
    name="Tomek"
    handle="sulco"
    cite="https://twitter.com/sulco/status/1735610348730802342"
  >
    Starlight is our go-to example of a great DX: the speed, convenience, and
    attention to details is inspiring. It takes care of the tech and the looks,
    so you can focus on your content 👏

    StackBlitz team absolutely loves it!

  </Testimonial>
  <Testimonial
    name="Roberto"
    handle="RmeetsH"
    cite="https://twitter.com/RmeetsH/status/1735783992018760090"
  >
    Starlight has been a game-changer for me, allowing me to focus on content creation.

    Its intuitive design not only streamlines my workflow but also reduces onboarding time for open-source developers.

  </Testimonial>
  <Testimonial
    name="Joel"
    handle="jhooks"
    cite="https://twitter.com/jhooks/status/1727405160547418405"
  >
    Spent some more time with Starlight for the Course Builder docs and it’s been great so far. Lots of nice touches and can focus on writing in Markdown and not fiddling with the site.
  </Testimonial>
  <Testimonial
    name="Rick"
    handle="rick_viscomi"
    cite="https://twitter.com/rick_viscomi/status/1665867447910510593"
  >
    Started playing with Starlight. Gotta say I’m very impressed with the performance out of the box.

    💯💯💯💯

  </Testimonial>
  <Testimonial
    name="Nicolas"
    handle="beaussan"
    cite="https://twitter.com/beaussan/status/1735625189583466893"
  >
    Starlight is the best way to get started with documentation, between the
    power and speed of Astro, and the tooling from Starlight, it’s a match in
    heaven.

    It has been my go to for a while now, and I keep on loving it!

  </Testimonial>
  <Testimonial
    name="Sylwia"
    handle="SylwiaVargas"
    cite="https://x.com/SylwiaVargas/status/1726556825741578286"
  >
    I used Starlight in my last job and loved it. Great components, intuitive
    design, and super-responsive community (whenever anyone needed something,
    they’d ship it soonish or tell you a workaround). Very pleasant experience.
  </Testimonial>
  <Testimonial
    name="Lou Cyx"
    handle="loucyx"
    cite="https://elk.zone/m.webtoo.ls/@loucyx@mastodon.social/111587380021362284"
  >
    The docs on my monorepo site look better than ever thanks to Starlight. It’s extremely easy to use without losing all the power of Astro. Thank you for working on it!
  </Testimonial>
  <Testimonial
    name="BowTiedWebReaper"
    handle="BowTiedWebReapr"
    cite="https://twitter.com/BowTiedWebReapr/status/1735633399501697517"
  >
    Starlight is my go-to tool for documentation. It made it super easy to add docs to my existing Astro product website, vs needing a subdomain to use with another tool.
  </Testimonial>
  <Testimonial
    name="Jeff"
    handle="J_Everhart383"
    cite="https://twitter.com/J_Everhart383/status/1691900590048292908"
  >
    I’ve been rebuilding the WPEngine Atlas Platform docs. Trust me when I say Starlight has everything you need to make an A+ docs platform&nbsp;🙌
  </Testimonial>
  <Testimonial
    name="Chloe"
    handle="solelychloe"
    cite="https://twitter.com/solelychloe/status/1695115277602628082"
  >
    Give Starlight a try!

    I use it for a few of my sites and it’s great.

  </Testimonial>
</TestimonialGrid>

<AboutAstro title="Brought to you by">
Astro is the all-in-one web framework designed for speed.
Pull your content from anywhere and deploy everywhere, all powered by your favorite UI components and libraries.

[Learn about Astro](https://astro.build/)

</AboutAstro>
